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     #20yrsago EFF and friends kick WIPO’s ass https://web.archive.org/web/20050525075913/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003512.php

     #20yrsago Papal elections are more secure than US elections https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/04/hacking_the_pap_1.html

     #20yrsago Why new US passports can be read without permission https://web.archive.org/web/20050415021937/http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000798.html

     #20yrsago Turning WIPO into a real UN agency: blogging from the sausage factory https://web.archive.org/web/20050903073451/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003511.php

     #20yrsago India’s amazing statement on IP and international development https://web.archive.org/web/20050417231302/http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/a2k/2005-April/000241.html

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     Hey look at this

     * Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg voices https://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/ (h/t Paul Bigbee)

     * 10 years of pomological watercolors https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/

     * Why Billionaires Are Secretly Reading Karl Marx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrDqzURCH6M (h/t r/LateStageCapitalism)

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     Machina economicus: Enshittification is an alien invasion.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114337976025476782

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 05:53:19 JST Cory Doctorow

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     I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

     Catch me in #NewZealand at UNITY BOOKS in #AUCKLAND (May 2, 6PM):

     https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1320740102199

     and #WELLINGTON (May 3, 3PM):

     https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-events/author-talk-picks-and-shovels-by-cory-doctorow

     More tour dates (#PDX, #Pittsburgh, #London, #Manchester) here:

     http://martinhench.com

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 05:53:44 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #15yrsago This means war: Big Content’s war on democracy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/apr/16/digital-economy-act-cory-doctorow

     #15yrsago Apple blocks Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist from iStore for “ridiculing public figures” https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/04/mark-fiore-can-win-a-pulitzer-prize-but-he-cant-get-his-iphone-cartoon-app-past-apples-satire-police/

     #15yrsago Big Content’s dystopian wish-list for the US gov’t: spyware, censorship, physical searches and SWAT teams https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/entertainment-industrys-dystopia-future

     #15yrsago UK minority party supporters coordinate strategic votes through Facebook https://memex.craphound.com/2010/04/14/uk-minority-party-supporters-coordinate-strategic-votes-through-facebook/

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